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a lawson

@frock_and_roll_

literature professor/vintage seller. I like words and old stuff.

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calendar_today19-04-2009 16:57:36

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"By putting herself — body, voice and mind — in the frame as she made her way across beaches and marketplaces, Varda insisted that filmmaking could be a kind of companionship, a communal act of looking, wondering and feeling." nyti.ms/2CKkuqy

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"I don’t mean this to sound soft or sentimental, or to create a misleading impression of niceness. Friends can be difficult. Friendship is demanding. It is also transformative, & if Varda was among the most welcoming of directors, she was also among the most rigorous and radical"

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"...we need to together stare deep into the gaping hole in our country & have an honest discussion abt the cracks in our nation. Which, btw, has always been divided; it’s just that for too many of us, we were blinded to it by our privilege" vox.com/first-person/2…

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“Old clothes in general are so tied to the body, and female bodies in particular, that they have not been valorized as objects, like paintings, which were seen as examples of male genius. They were more like rags that had lived on past their time.” nyti.ms/2LqsiF5

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"The most important thing in life is to be true to yourself. You can be true to others, if you have time." nyti.ms/2I9wwgw

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I'm very excited to have an article about Dawn Powell and Zelda Fitzgerald in the new issue of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. I know no one reads academic journals, but it's always exciting to see your name in print, nevertheless. jstor.org/stable/10.5325…

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"''There are certain emotions that are useful for the construction of a text, and some are too small. Anger is too tiny an emotion to use when you're writing, and compassion is too sloppy." Toni Morrison nyti.ms/29na2dw